How well do you know Amancio Ortega? Here are 10 facts about the reclusive owner of Zara. Earlier this week Amancio Ortega Gaona, founder of the fashion giant Zara, is said to have surpassed Microsoft’s Bill Gates as the richest man in the world. According to Forbes, based on networth, Ortega at “somewhere from $77.8 billion to $79.5 billion” was marginally ahead of Gates’s $78.5 billion networth. Fortune.com points out, however, that there are different ways of ...